Led by Dave Van Wylen ’80, Professor Emeritus of Biology, St. Olaf, and Principal, Office of Possibilities, Hope College, and Pat Van Wylen ’80, P ’10, ’11, ’16, Retired Visiting Scholar Coordinator, St. Olaf
Plunge into the Amazon, the world’s most biodiverse rainforest, and the Galapagos, a unique environment where you can encounter a variety of animals in their natural habitats, unfazed by your presence. See the Overview to the right for more information on what we’ll see, do, and learn.
Dave and Pat Van Wylen are veteran group travel leaders, having led both student and adult study travel programs. Their first venture with adults was in 2015 when they led a sustainability-themed activity-based (mostly biking) program in the Netherlands. More recently, they led programs in Spain in 2023, Patagonia in 2022 and in New Zealand in 2017 and 2019. With students, they have led semester abroad programs in Asia (1998), the Middle East (2008), and Australia (2013). Dave has also taught three January interims in Peru (Peruvian Medical Experience), six interims of Cardiac Surgery and Research at Emory University in Atlanta, plus a summer Tanzania Global Health experience. Pat assisted on most of these interims as well as on an interim Health Care and Culture course in Hawaii/Micronesia.
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